Narinjara News
An Arakanese Youth Political
Activist Arrives in
He had been under close watch by military intelligence since
his assignment to work on Aung San Suu Kyi’s security
team during her last year visit to
His name is Ko Nine Nine and he was arrested by the SPDC government for
involvement with the 1988 people’s uprising. He had been tortured by MI
(military intelligence) for seven days in a MI interrogation cell of Akyab and hospitalized for 3 months in jail. After three
years, he was freed from jail, as authorities had no specific offence to charge
him with. Among nine arrestees altogether with him, eight were sentenced to
death.
As he used to walk in Akyab
wearing a T-shirt with Aung San Suu Kyi’s photograph,
he was accused of criminal activities by MI because of his democratic
activities.
Ko Nine Nine
was fired from his job in shrimp exporting company in the face of threats by
MI. After that, no one dared employ him.
Answering a Narinjara reporter’s
questions, Ko Nine Nine
said, “military intelligence officers are in close watch on us, as we have led
other political activists in Arakan. We were assigned
with the duty of providing security to Aung San Suu Kyi on her visit to Arakan state and we arranged a big reception for her in a
festive manner. They watch our movements. I waited for better days from a
political point of view, but the situation is deteriorating day by day. The
military junta is becoming more and more furious and brutal to political
activists, even to common people. The government has become more merciless
since the Dipayin incident. Soon after Dipayin, a policeman by the name of Kyaw Kyaw called me to the police station and took my photograph
and biography. Later they assigned someone to watch my movement. At the same
time, they shut down all NLD offices in Akyab and
they imposed a ban on the movement of members of the National League for
Democracy.”
He added, “They took more repressive measure towards
political workers of Akyab. They confiscated the car
owned by the Chairman of the
Ko Nine Nine
brought with him a video tape of Suu Kyi’s visit to Arakan and some important papers,” a source said.
According to Ko Nine Nine, though the SPDC government is claiming to the world
that it has been heading towards democracy, in reality, they are destroying
democratic institutions and trampling the political activities. The SPDC is
brutally suppressing political activists, the members of the NLD and other
political parties of Arakan. #
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